60 Quotes by Kenneth Tynan

Coming to New York from the muted mistiness of London, as I regularly do, is like travelling from a monochrome antique shop to a technicolor bazaar.

Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.

A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.

A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clenches his fist.

What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.

A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.

A neurosis is a secret that you don’t know you are keeping.